I got RF2 for Christmas, and now I'm hooked! This story may start off cute, but it will get very dramatic. So, here it is.

"Aria!" someone said harshly. I felt something hit my hand, and I woke with a start.

"Ah!" I exclaimed. I opened my eyes to see Barrett, one of my teachers, standing over my desk. I looked around, and saw that all my friends were staring at me.

"Sleeping in class again?" Barrett asked. I had to think of something, and fast.

"No, sir," I replied. "I was…meditating, that's all."

"Then answer my question," he said. "What materials are necessary for making a zweihander?" I stared up at him, drawing a complete blank.

"Um," I started to say. "To make a zweihander, you need a…proof of warrior, and a-"

"Wrong, Aria," Barrett said. He sighed. "Class dismissed." Everyone got up from his or her seat, and darted out the door. I was still sleepy, so I took a little longer to leave.

"Nice job, Aria," Aaron, my twin brother, said to me as we left. "Barrett's probably going to tell Mom and Dad that we were causing trouble again."
"What did you do to cause trouble?" I asked. Aaron looked around quickly.

"While you were asleep," he said in a whisper. "Leann and I were passing notes, and Barrett caught us." Leann de Sainte-Coquille was a member of the richest family in town, and very shy, so she went very well with Aaron…or so everyone thought.

"Aaron!" I exclaimed. "I thought you two were over!"

"Shut up!" Aaron hissed. "And it wasn't like that. She was asking me to tell everyone that she was having a party at the manor tomorrow when her family left to go visit some friends in Kardia."

"A party?" I asked, but before I could say anything else, someone came from behind me and lifted me off the ground.

"Roy!" I shouted. Roy didn't go to school, since he was too old, so he worked for his Mom in her shop, no matter how much he hated weapons.

"No!" Roy exclaimed. "You always guess right!"

"Well," I said. "You are the only boyfriend I have."

"Good point," Roy said with a laugh. "So, have you heard about the party?"

"Was I the last to know?" I asked.

"Pretty much," Roy said.
"Um," Aaron said. "I'm going to head home. See you there, Aria." He walked off toward our house.

Roy and I looked at each other, and started walking. We always liked to take the long way home.

"He's so awkward," I said.

"He's your brother, though," Roy pointed out.

"So are you saying I'm awkward just because we're twins?" I asked jokingly.

"I guess I don't have any kind of answer to that one," Roy said. "I know how hard you can hit me…and that you're good with a sword."

"Yeah," I said.
"Hey, Aria!" a voice called out. I turned around to see Leonel, Barrett's son, as well as Mayor Byron's grandson. He was girly looking, even though he hated to be told that. He was really nice, but I could never see him as my boyfriend, especially since I had Roy.

"Hey, Leonel," I said unenthusiastically.

"You've heard about the thing at the manor tomorrow, right?" he asked. I knew right away what he was up to.

"Don't ask me on a date, Leonel," I said, putting my hand in Roy's. "You know I'm taken." His face fell.

"See you later, Aria," he said, and went back into his house.

"He's a weirdo," Roy said.

"Yeah," I said. "But a very nice weirdo."

We continued walking, until we got to the inn, where another one of my classmates, Orland, was standing. He was three-quarters elf, and took after his father in the fact that he hated humans. As Roy and I walked by him, he glared at us.

"He's weird, too," I muttered.

"I wouldn't say that," Roy replied, making his voice a little louder as we walked past Orland. "I'd say he's more of a jerk than anything." I laughed, and we kept walking. As we passed by de Sainte-Coquille Manor, I sighed.

"Poor Leann," I muttered. "Always forced to be a lady."

"More like a hermit," Roy said. "She never leaves the house, other than to take a bath or go to school."

As we made our way past de Sainte-Coquille Park – which, of course, was owned by Leann's family – and into the east end of town, we passed by the clinic. Standing outside were Sera and Serena, the town doctor's twin daughters. It was very easy to get them confused, unless you got to know them.

"Hiya!" called Serena.

"Hi, Aria!" Sera called in an identical tone of voice.

"Have you heard about the party?" Serena asked.

"Yeah," I replied. "I have."

"I'm so excited!" Sera exclaimed. "See you later, Aria!"

"Sera never gets excited about social events," I whispered to Roy. "She'd rather just stay home and read, usually."

"I know," Roy said.

"Hello, Roy and Aria!" Cammy exclaimed, jumping out seemingly from nowhere.

"Hi, Cammy," I said. Cammy was the local priest's youngest daughter. She acted like an older sister to me, but it got kind of annoying sometimes. "Let me guess, you're going to Leann's party, too."

"How'd you know?" Cammy asked. "It's going to be great, though!" She paused. "Sorry I can't talk longer. The bath house is going to open soon. Bye!"

"Bye, Cammy," I said. She walked quickly toward the bath house, and went inside.

Roy and I turned the corner to go on to the property of the ranch that my dad, Aaron, and I all ran. He politely walked me up to the door.

"I'll see you tomorrow night," I said.

"Yeah," Roy replied. "I've got to head home. Mom usually likes me home around this time so I can help in the shop." I stood on my tiptoes to kiss him. "Bye." He ran off toward his house.

The minute I walked into my house, I was immediately greeted by chaos.

"Mana," I heard my dad say from upstairs. "Are you sure you don't know where my hammer is?"

"I'm sure, Kyle," my mom replied. "I don't even know if I've ever touched it."

"What about you, Aaron?" Dad asked.

"I told you," Aaron said. "I think Aria has it. She went out early before school started." I felt angry with him, because that implied that I was going out into the dungeons to fight monsters.

"Well," Dad said. "She'd better get home soon, because there's a rock in the field the size of your head."

"Hi, Dad!" I called upstairs. He came down to the main floor.

"Do you have my hammer?" he immediately asked. I took the hammer out of my backpack.

"Not even a 'hello'?" I asked, handing it to him. He took it from me, and looked embarrassed.

"Sorry," he replied. "I'm just a little stressed out, because I need to plant the last of the summer crops today, and Douglas is hounding me to get the other vegetables in." He sighed. "So, how was your day?"

"Fine, Dad," I replied, leaving out the part about falling asleep in class, and of course, the party at Leann's.

"All right," he said. "I'm going to go take care of that rock, and then I might have you and Aaron deliver that produce to your grandfather."

"Okay," I said. "Just let me know." I ran up the stairs to go have a "chat" with Aaron.

I stormed into our room, and shut the door so Mom didn't hear what we were talking about.

"You're such an idiot!" I said to him. "Do you have to tell them everything I do?"

"What re you talking about?" Aaron asked. "I just said you went off somewhere this morning! For all they know, you could have just gone to see Roy!"

"With a hammer?" I asked.

"I guess you have a point," he said. "But still, I didn't go up to Dad and say 'Guess what? Aria went off into the Padova Mountains to mine and kill monsters!' I'm not seven anymore."

"Well," I said. "Here's an idea. You don't tell Mom and Dad that I've been going into the dungeons, and I won't tell Mom and Dad that their precious baby of the family and Leann were kissing behind a tree!" Aaron blushed.

"How did you know that?" he asked.

"Aaron," I said. "I just completely made that up. I didn't know that." I paused. "So you are going out again!"

"Shut up!" he exclaimed. "And I'm not the baby of the family!"

"Let's see," I said. "There are only two children in our family, a boy and a girl. The boy was born ten minutes after the girl. What does that make the boy?"

"The younger twin," Aaron replied. "But not the baby."

"Okay," I said. "This is getting stupid, especially on your part. We're sixteen, remember?"

"Yeah," Aaron said. "At least I can find someone my own age."

"Now it's your turn to shut up," I said, narrowing my eyes.

"It's true," Aaron replied candidly.

"I like Roy," I said. "The only other boys in town that are my age are Orland, who is the biggest jerk I've ever met, and Leonel, who I would never go out with."

"Whatever," he said. "Who knows? Maybe Leann will invite some rich friends from out of town or something, and you can find a new boyfriend."

"I don't want a new boyfriend," I said. "I'm very content with Roy." I sat down on my bed.

"Aaron!" Dad called from downstairs. "Aria! I need you to deliver these vegetables to your grandfather's shop!"

"Okay, Dad!" I called down. Aaron groaned.

"I don't feel like carrying huge, heavy crates today," he whined.

"Tough," I said, opening the door and leaving the room. "Come on!"

"Fine," Aaron said, and we went over to Grandpa Douglas' shop.

Sorry, that was kind of an abrupt and sucky ending. But the story gets better, I promise!